Really no Shadow

Was hoping for last minute Shadow announcement..

A bit bummed 😕

Any new class would be nice. But Templars sooner rather than later would be awesome. Really hope swords are soon, too. No swords in an ARPG feels like no Mario in a smash game you know, kind of just the most basic thing. Not a criticism, as I know it's early access.

I was honestly hoping for Swords/Axes or Flails and ascendencies to fit with that, we are getting very little love on that side of the tree. I don't find most Mace skills fun to engage in and feel very weak or unintuitive to play.

A lot of the melee spear skills are similar requiring charges to use with no proper way to get charges, way of stonefist might fix this now with the power charge on crit affix for gloves we might start seeing some Fangs of Frost builds.

More likely it will go to Glaciel Lance as that skill is actually really strong if you can maintain charges for it, it is also one of the coolest looking skills in the game.

I can respect that... any additional melee characters should have been introduced by now.

Honestly, I didn't play much of PoE 2 on launch due to the weapon limitations, I get that they wanna work on other things first, but some bladed weapons woulda have been expected by now... no swords in any ARPG (like mentioned above by Cyriac) is sad!

Anyways, that's a personal complaint of mine, I hate bludgeoning weapons and am not too fond of Spears.

Maces are earthcaster and spears are windcaster anyway.

there are no melee characters.

If they had mace attacks that were like playing a warrior/barbarian, it'd be fun. but instead you're very very slowly summoning earthquakes and trying to get charges and combo-wombo and all this bullshit.